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Friends, family remember woman killed in west Louisville shootings

Funeral services for the young woman killed in Thursday's shootings were held Monday.

Friends, family remember woman killed in west Louisville shootings

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Updated: 7:33 PM EDT May 21, 2012

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —

Funeral services for the young woman killed in Thursday's shootings were held Monday.

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Friends and family members of 24-year-old Makeba Lee gathered at the Portland Memorial Missionary Baptist church for a visitation service.

“It's very sad. She was loved too much. We shouldn’t even be here today,” said one friend.

The visitation service lasted until 1 p.m. when the funeral service began.

Lee’s family chose to remain private. She leaves behind a 1-year-old child.

“It's an unendurable pain that nobody can describe in regards to her being gone but also looking at that child, knowing that child will now be without his mother or his father for the rest of his natural born life,” said community activist Christopher 2X.

Some wore T-shirts made to honor Lee as they tried to bring calm to the neighborhood.

There was a heavy police presence, including several unmarked police cars and officers in plain clothes

Lee was killed Thursday when gunfire rang out on South 32nd Street.

Tyson Mimms, 24, and Craig Bland Jr., 22, were killed and two other men were injured around 1 p.m. Thursday.

Then, about 90 minutes later and one block to the south, police said Cheetara Goldsmith shot Lee to death, before being shot and injured by police.

Goldsmith, 24, was charged Monday with murder and wanton endangerment in connection with Lee's slaying.

Lee is the mother of Mimms' 1-year-old child and sources said Goldsmith is pregnant with Bland's child.

They also said the shootings are the result of an ongoing dispute between the Mimms and Bland families that dates back several years.

Neighbors said they don't care why the violence happened, they just want it to stop.

"I don't know what the retaliation was or the animosity, but it's just getting out of hand," said Willy Sample. "We just need to keep the peace and come together."

While neighbors call for change, some insist it won't come.

"The streets is going to be the streets. The police is going to be the police. That's all I can tell you," said Q Dorsey.

Police said everyone directly involved in Thursday's shootings is either dead or in the hospital under police supervision.